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Are you referring to the DMCA? That was never to help the little guy.
no i should have specified. i meant the very idea and instantiation of ‘copyright’ itself
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/
Ah, I see. Yep, the Statute of Anne broke up the Shakespearean monopolies and after that brief high point, it was all downhill.